Reconstruction 1865-1877 - • terms ◦ 10 Percent Plan 1863...

terms •
10 Percent Plan (1863): ≇
Wade-Davis Bill (1864): ≇
Freedman's Bureau (1865): ≇
13,14,15 Amendments: ≇
Civil Rights Act (1866): ≇
Reconstruction Acts (1867): ≇
Enforcement Acts/ Ku Klux Klan Acts (1871): ≇
Black Codes: ≇
Tenure of Office Act (1867): ≇
Civil Rights Act (1875): ≇
Carpetbaggers/Scalawags: ≇
Abraham Lincoln: ≇
Andrew Johnson: ≇
Ulysses S Grant: ≇
Rutherford B Hayes: ≇
General Amnesty Act (1872): ≇
Ku Klux Klan: ≇
Sharecropping: ≇
Wage Labor: ≇
Labor Gangs: ≇
Subsistence work: ≇
timeline •
1863 lincoln announces his reconstruction plan ≇
1865 civil war ends ≇
1879-1871 Enforcement act ≇
the protection for blacks in the south disappears ≇
questions •
what are the opposing view of reconstruction in the wake of the civil war? ≇
who supported these competing views and why? ≇
was reconstruction a success? ≇
the determination of African Americans ‣
the 14th and 15th amendments ‣
not enforced though •
reconstruction politics •
at the end of the war ≇
the south was in economic, social, and political chaos ‣
the gentry were especially hurt by the loss of their slaves ‣
the Objectives of Reconstruction •

how will the southern states be readmitted to the union ≇
what will the status of Freedmen be? ≇
Concerns of Reconstruction •
can the united states be truly united ≇
can blacks and whites live together? ≇
"nothing like slavery" vs "as close to slavery as we can get" ‣
blacks wanted equal legal, political, social, and educational rights ‣
as a result southern whites often respond with extreme violence ‣
who runs this country? ≇
Wartime Reconstruction (Lincoln) 1863-1864 •
proclamation of amnesty and Reconstruction ≇
10% plan: if ten percent of the eligible voters of 1850 state pledged ‣